I considered that at first, but like I said it's lightning fast on my test network with is a dsl connection not associated with our t1. And it's lightning fast when I put my IP in the bypass list. Only time it seems to be slow is when it's going through the proxy.

What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the URI: encode

I have X-forward and Disable VIA unchecked as well. I do have the whitespace characters in the URI set as: strip.

I will try switching it to encode and see if that does anything.

Yes, I would love to update but I'll probably have to wait until this weekend before I can upgrade. I don't like doing major changes like that during the work week. People get irritated if they can't get to the internet or get their email